For the second time in three weeks, there’s a team from the CIF Southern Section’s Southwestern League that wins a huge game, stays unbeaten and gets to jump way up into the state rankings. A big welcome to Chaparral of Temecula. We also have two other newcomers for this week’s rankings and both of those...
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All-State Baseball: Underclass
This is the first of four posts announcing the 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams and we begin with the underclassmen. These are the best of the best for juniors, sophomores and freshmen. It’s harder for the younger players grouped with the juniors, but some sophomores broke through and our State Freshman of the...
FINAL Softball Expanded Top 40
It takes us extra time to produce, but as is our custom we have gone through all information collected during the 2019 California high school softball season and are ready to release our expanded, final Top 40 overall team rankings. It’s hard to get bumps, especially when the CIF Southern Section playoffs had already ended...
Baseball: Divisional State Ranks
As the CIF Southern Section is about to slice up its playoff brackets in baseball to just four left in each one after Friday’s quarterfinals, some other section playoffs around the state (CCS, NCS, Sac-Joaquin) are just getting around to releasing their brackets. We wish we had more time to do more weeks of these […]
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
It’s already the last week of the regular season for a lot of teams (especially in Southern California) with the highlight being a three-game series between top 10 teams Harvard-Westlake and Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks). In this week’s rankings, we kept Orange Lutheran on top despite losing one of three games in a series to...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
One upset loss in extra innings to a team it has beaten before doesn’t cost Norco the No. 1 ranking in the state. Foothill of Pleasanton stays No. 2 but all of the teams beating each other throughout the rest of Southern California may pay off for the Falcons down the road if they finish...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Ranks
Southern California once again shows its the best in the nation for prep baseball as state No. 1 Orange Lutheran and No. 2 Harvard-Westlake both get to the finals of the National High School Invitational. The Lancers won 6-2 to stay No. 1 with the Wolverines staying No. 2. There are a lot of changes...
NEW Baseball State Top 25
With previous No. 1 Harvard-Westlake taking a tie, we’ve determined that if either Cypress, Orange Lutheran or Huntington Beach wins the title in this week’s SoCal portion of the Boras Classic then that team should essentially be the No. 1 team in the state. That’s why those three are now No. 1, No. 2 and...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
The earlier start to the 2019 season has been hampered by a lot of rainouts, especially in Northern California, but this upcoming week should really get things going. We’re sticking with preseason No. 1 Harvard-Westlake as the state No. 1 even though that isn’t a consensus No. 1 for Southern California. We have our reasons...
Inside The All-State Football Team
After splitting the watch list for some of the most promising freshmen in the state into a separate post last week, this final installment of our annual all-state football series of posts includes our pick for most inspirational player of the year. We also have a look at year two of competitive equity seeding and...
